Steve Saunders
19-01-2004, 06:12 PM
These thoughts are from the perspective of an attendee and NLP Modeller.
The whole of the "Clean Language Part 1" course is like a metaphor for the way one practitions clean language. Using a form of discovery method where the learner only gets to know what they need next, we "blundered around in the dark" gradually discovering for ourselves, as a meta learning, that clean language is about taking literally the NLP "never knowing the client reality". One is always "in the dark" and as a guide, one has these few clean questions to find out.
By constraining us to only know of what we needed to know at any one stage, we anchored the (most likely) best questions to each part of the process, and gradually evolved our understanding of clean language, just as we gradually evolved our insight into the metaphor landscape of a client (and then it changes, so we don't know again).
And then (one of many) the cunning part: get the client to re-map their landscape as key points. For NLP'ers a key element is to be in rapport with the metaphor landscape, not necessaily the client - a key difference and actually more respectful in my view.
The underlying process involves "morphing" to metaphor, locating metaphors and detailing their attributes and exploring their relationships, all through time. As an encoding of perceptual space, there is a mapping to models of meaning under development.
An amazing insight was the 30% or more time spent consolidating change after the client had made their change (there is no intervention in symbolic modelling). This is a key learning to take back to mainstream NLP whatever else: to spend so much time making sure the client has all the resources after the change.
The recent developments of formally putting together necessity and possibility frames with taking the first step aligns with T.Robbins "utlimate success formula". The systemic progression to outcome and away from problem is neat, rapportful and powerful, and would serve as the basis for a clean replacement of traditional outcomes.
As a client, the whole process required very little emotional energy, in contrast to many other approaches.
I look forward to S.M. cleaning up all of NLP as soon as you can!
There are clear and obvious links with New Code choice points and kinaesthetic field research I'm interested in following-up!
Overall - very thorough, profound and inspiring to find simplicity underpinning all the complexity. Wow!
Steve
The whole of the "Clean Language Part 1" course is like a metaphor for the way one practitions clean language. Using a form of discovery method where the learner only gets to know what they need next, we "blundered around in the dark" gradually discovering for ourselves, as a meta learning, that clean language is about taking literally the NLP "never knowing the client reality". One is always "in the dark" and as a guide, one has these few clean questions to find out.
By constraining us to only know of what we needed to know at any one stage, we anchored the (most likely) best questions to each part of the process, and gradually evolved our understanding of clean language, just as we gradually evolved our insight into the metaphor landscape of a client (and then it changes, so we don't know again).
And then (one of many) the cunning part: get the client to re-map their landscape as key points. For NLP'ers a key element is to be in rapport with the metaphor landscape, not necessaily the client - a key difference and actually more respectful in my view.
The underlying process involves "morphing" to metaphor, locating metaphors and detailing their attributes and exploring their relationships, all through time. As an encoding of perceptual space, there is a mapping to models of meaning under development.
An amazing insight was the 30% or more time spent consolidating change after the client had made their change (there is no intervention in symbolic modelling). This is a key learning to take back to mainstream NLP whatever else: to spend so much time making sure the client has all the resources after the change.
The recent developments of formally putting together necessity and possibility frames with taking the first step aligns with T.Robbins "utlimate success formula". The systemic progression to outcome and away from problem is neat, rapportful and powerful, and would serve as the basis for a clean replacement of traditional outcomes.
As a client, the whole process required very little emotional energy, in contrast to many other approaches.
I look forward to S.M. cleaning up all of NLP as soon as you can!
There are clear and obvious links with New Code choice points and kinaesthetic field research I'm interested in following-up!
Overall - very thorough, profound and inspiring to find simplicity underpinning all the complexity. Wow!
Steve